Word: sinic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roughly 1,000,000 tribesmen living in the remote, heavily jungled high plateaus. The Montagnards take a lot of knowing, for they comprise an extraordinarily complex ethnolmguistic mixture numbering at least 20 tribes and many more splinter groupings. They have for centuries resisted the cultural influences of the Sinic and Hindu peoples that have flooded into the IndoChinese peninsula. Saigon leaders, from President Ngo Dinh Diem through General Nguyen Khanh and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, had gone through similar ceremonies previously in attempts to rally the Montagnards to Saigon's cause-without success. Instead, Montagnard sentiments gradually...
...nation, "I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing-the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once." Observed a State Department Orientalist: "The President in effect committed political suicide before the world. In the Sinic tradition, this is considered a time-honored gesture of sincerity...
...down from Paris to cover the African junket of Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. With the London Observer's Anthony Sampson, Wilde was arrested on the charge that he had tried to pass himself off as Chinese-which would have been a neat trick considering his entirely un-Sinic appearance. The inspector who picked him up was "charming, really charming," reported Wilde later. Less charming was the small, airless, bug-infested cell in which Wilde was stripped of all his clothes-even his glasses-and kept without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls...